Our house is small. We're building a bigger one but there's absolutely no way it will arrive pre-baby. More like 6 months post-baby.
Our toddler is a non-sleeping uber-grouch who is very loud when she goes to bed (sometime between 9 and 11pm) and when she wakes up (sometime between 8 and 9am) she throws things (essential things she Will Not Get Into Bed without) out of her cot across the room ... BANG CRASH CLUNK ... and then starts hollering for us. I've literally only seen her asleep in her bed once or twice in her life as she's such a light sleeper - she wakes up if we so much as breathe outside her door. So her room isn't the best place to put a baby.
Other child is 9, and her room is jam packed with lego, drawing stuff and general Big Girl Things. She sleeps like the dead 11.5 hours a night every night but spends a lot of time in her room drawing or on her computer. So her room isn't the best place to put a baby.
So we're putting the new baby in our bedroom in a bassinette, the change table in the hallway (it won't fit in our bedroom), and all the baby stuff in the compartments under the bassinette. If this baby is as horrific a sleeper as the last one, we'll sleep in the lounge.
Has anyone else survived 6 months with no nursery? How did you cope? Any tips?
No nursery with either bub. Had no choice first time around, but then I am all for bubs being in the bedroom . 2nd time I did not even bother with trying to put bub into a cot or bassinet, just went straight to co-sleeping.
Very doable with what you have suggested. I found baby change in a living area worked best for us and same with the clothing. Even now as DD2 is still in with us, we have a chest of drawers for her in the hallway, prior to that it was in our lounge and was used as a way of defining the toy area. Having their clothing out of the bedroom makes it much easier when doing the folding and putting away as it can be done after bubs is asleep
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We had bassinet then hammock in our room with DD1 and had her clothes and nappy paraphernalia under the change table which was in the living room. We didn't worry about a room for her until she was about 8 months and needed to sleep in a cot.
For DD2 (currently only newborn) she will have to share a room with DD1 (now 2.5yrs) eventually but we are doing the same thing again.
I find it much easier to have all the clothes and change things on hand rather than having to go to another room, especially when trying to keep an eye on DD1.
Do what works for you, as ajm mum said, you will work out a system
Best of luck with your little one's sleeping and here is hoping she is nothing like your toddler and takes after your 9 year old!
We survived for nearly 18 months with no nursery! As it is, DD2 is turning one next week and is still in a port-a-cot next to our bed and she has no change table or anything like that We make it work, I wouldn't know how to do things any different!
we still don't have a nursery!!! We put the cradle in the walk-in-wardrobe (it just fit) and that allowed us to close the door on him to give him some quiet. Change mat on top of a chest of drawers in the kitchen (renovating!) worked well for us.
I'm hoping the amount of wriggles is an indication of how good the baby is - they seem to keep the same sleep/wake cycles inside as outside for quite a few months after they are born.
Last one I blame coffee on - I went off coffee 100% with my first but not my second and she was a serious wriggler, until midnight each night or later. It took us a year to get her to bed before midnight. This one doesn't seem anywhere near as bad. There's no way I could have co-slept with grumpybum. I still can't snooze when she is around, she climbs up on top of my tummy (which makes the baby kick me), announces "NO go to sleep mummy!" and hauls my eyelids open.
My partner is a shocking sleeper - grumpybum takes after him in every way, I think all she got from me is her blood type. I'm hoping this one takes after ME. I'm a good sleeper!
We had a nursery for DD, but she slept with me, and her change table was in the lounge room. All her clothes were kept in the drawer under the coffee table.
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We make it work, I wouldn't know how to do things any different!
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